Robin Denselow talks to the French-Algerian singer-songwriter Souad Massi, whose latest album is a testament to survival amid the depths of global despondency and personal hardship
Afghan singer Elaha Soroor talks to Simon Broughton about her role in a play that mirrors her own flight as a refugee and the fate of her family back home since the Taliban’s return to power
Nigel Williamson selects 10 vital albums brimming with bluegrass, clawhammer and old-time reinventions
American banjo and fiddle player Jake Blount explains to Alexandra Petropoulos how he’s using the sounds and lessons of history and the global climate crisis to envision a new future for Black spiritual music
French-American musician and producer Thomas Attar Bellier talks about his sizzling new psych-rock unit who are fusing North African trance and Middle Eastern melodies with elements of alternative rock
Waxing lyrical with the genre-bending French-Lebanese trumpeter and composer whose latest video features the socio-political star flow of actress and activist Sharon Stone
Folk singer and fiddle player Jackie Oates explores the confessional nature of folk song on her new album, Gracious Wings
One of Turkey’s most influential cultural figures speaks about his fight for peace through music
Daniel Spicer reports on a new collaboration between the son of a Malian guitar legend and the hypnotic trio from Houston, a lilting fusion of desert blues, psychedelia and dub
The doyenne of the Korean bamboo flute talks about the power of distortion and diverse dictionaries of tonal colours
Cross-pollinator of Indian classical and contemporary world music tells us about the albums and artists which have influenced his work
Three world music festival directors dive deep into sounds from Switzerland’s global and folk artists and tell Songlines who, given the chance, they would programme and why
Abel Selaocoe has made a name for himself as an innovator who straddles the worlds of Western classical and South African heritage. Jo Frost catches up with the cellist to talk about his debut solo album
Daniel Brown catches up with the band fashioning unique instruments from the rubbish heaps of Kinshasa’s Ngwaka neighbourhood
Simon Broughton selects ten albums that explore the fertile space between classical and traditional music
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